New Franklin News

New Franklin city officials are considering doing more road improvement projects this year after hearing from Deputy Service Director Jeff Olson.

Fire departments from Coventry, Clinton, Barberton, Canal Fulton and Lawrence Township gathered for a practice burn hosted by the New Franklin Fire Department May 4. New Franklin officials offered a vacant home at 857 Center Road the city purchased last year as the site for the burn.

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Shawn Eric Ford Jr. listens during his first Common Pleas Court pretrial in the courtroom of Judge Tom Parker in the Summit County Courthouse.

Leiby Hanna Rasnick Towne Evanchan Palmisano & Hobson LLC is a 20-year-old law firm located at 388 S. Main St.

A judge says attorneys and others involved in a case about the sledgehammer killings of a northeast Ohio couple can't talk about it outside of court while the case against a suspect proceeds.

Shawn Eric Ford Jr., 18 sits in the Barberton Municipal Courtroom of Judge David E. Fish after being arraigned for the aggravated murders of Jeffrey and Margaret Schobert of New Franklin and other charges in April 2013, in Barberton, Ohio.

From 8 a.m. Friday until early Monday morning, sheriff's deputies and a Barberton police K-9 were busy busting meth labs across Summit County, according to the Summit County Sheriff.

Seven months after the legislation was introduced, New Franklin City Council adopted an ordinance to change the classification of 105 parcels of property located along the south end of Turkeyfoot Lake from R-3 to R-L . During the public hearing, Zoning and Grants Coordinator Mark Kochheiser explained the request was needed to bring the properties ... (more)

Shawn E. Ford Jr. listens to the charges being read while being arraigned in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate John Shoemaker at the Summit County Courthouse.

An 18-year-old faces a court hearing in Ohio on aggravated murder and other charges in the sledgehammer killings of a prominent attorney and his wife.